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Here's an all-purpose task/project defer script that lets you push back projects and tasks by a given number of days (default 1, but you can enter an arbitrary number at runtime). It also lets you defer just the due date or both the start and due dates.

My original purpose was to get around the lack of a weekday option for recurring tasks, but I find myself using it all the time.

@librarymonkey27
i hear you and i guess as always it comes down to personal preference and what works for you, but i thought true GTD specified that dates are to be considered sacred and only used when a task has to be done on a specific day.

i definitely am not that strict, and use the start date/completed date features all the time to tickle tasks

My company uses timesheets, for instance, that are required to be filled out by 10:00 every morning. I don't want to clutter my calendar with an appointment, but this still needs to be done -- and OmniFocus is the perfect tool to gently remind me at 9:50 (via Growl) that my timesheet is due. I find it useful to just skip the weekend (defer 2 days).

Another thought: I'd rather use flags to indicate importance and dates to indicate urgency (in the Covey sense). That way I can filter on flagged tasks to get a sense of my 'big rocks' and use this script to swat the urgent/unimportant tasks out of the way if necessary.